By Tefcros Michaelides
Athens, 1929. Stefanos Kantartzis is located murdered, and Michael Igerinos, his ally of 30 years, is being puzzled via the police because the final individual to work out him alive.
While taking a look at his lifeless friend’s physique, Michael is straight away taken again to the overdue summer time of 1900 while he and Stefanos first met within the filled Sorbonne collage lecture corridor. the tale in their friendship starts off throughout the moment foreign Congress of Mathematics—an occasion that used to be to develop into a landmark for twentieth century mathematical research.
At the basis of this traditionally established paintings of fiction lies the query to whether the answer to a mathematical challenge may possibly motivate such ardour, so severe and threatening, as to force anyone to murder.
The tale takes the reader backstage of academia, into the area of Bertrand Russell, Hilbert, Poincaré, and Gödel, and during the streets of Bohemian Paris on the heyday of Montmartre, the Moulin Rouge, and the “Zut”—the notorious hangout of Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Max Jacob, and lots of different colourful characters.
Pythagorean Crimes follows within the culture of renowned mathematical fiction like Doxiadis’ Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture and Martinez’ Oxford Murders. but brings with it old-world allure and the cultural richness of the social, political, medical and highbrow circles of early twentieth century France, Germany, and Greece.
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